SRI HOUSEHOLD SURVEY: GRASSROOTS INSTITUTIONS IN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT

The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in East Africa has been working with IFAD on implementing the “Enabling rural transformation and grassroots institutional building for sustainable land management and increased incomes and food security” project. The project aims at are providing IFAD with the tools and approaches which will contribute to addressing some of the challenges associated with better articulation and integration of rural grassroots institutional issues into the project cycle . The ICRAF project has the following main objectives: • To enhance capacity of variants of grassroots institutions and provide support to harness broader collective action for rural service delivery • To improve enterprise development within the context of conservation, and community level asset accumulation • To build a regional institutional platform for knowledge sharing, scaling up, and participation in sustainable land management policy making and development processes in East Africa. The research project is undertaken through action research, involving a number of stakeholders at the grassroots, district and national levels. It is currently at the group capacity development stage, with initial investigations into platform and enterprise development processes underway.